Furthermore, ship inspectors recommended that the Titanic increase its lifeboat capacity by nearly 50% before the voyage, but the advice was ignored.

But the 1894 British regulations dictated that the biggest passenger ships need carry only have a lifeboat capacity of 990 people, according to a US Library of Congress (LOC) blog post on Titanic.

Wikimedia CommonsThe last lifeboat to leave the doomed ship carries Titanic survivors to safety. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank on ...

And that was 73 years after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank back in 1912. John Zaller is the man who put all this together and you can see it in New Orleans.

The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with capacity for roughly half of the people on board the night the ship sank. It was only required to carry 16 lifeboats.

So confident was the White Star Line in the Titanic's invulnerability that the ship's lifeboat capacity was only about half the passengers and crew onboard.

Mystery of Titanic lifeboat found in the middle of the sea The Titanic continues to fascinate the public today. However, the tragic story of one of its lifeboats - Collapsible A - has been all but ...